RICERCA ITALIANA     

National Survey for education and training professions recognize in the European context : which professions, how teaching and training, to identify work.

Università degli Studi di Firenze

Abstract

The two-year interdisciplinary research programme is focused on the study of the specificities and the articulation of the educational professions’ chain, as defined through core competencies, with an intervention research methodology. The research is aimed at starting a strategic action organised on a scientific, professional, juridical and political level directed to the recognition of educational professions both in the national and European context. The inquiry is focused on the non-regulated educational professions, the professional profiles defined in relation to competencies and to the opportunities/restraints system that these activities have to face on the labour market. The research intend to study and define the educational/training professions in relation to the changes underway in Italian universities and to examine the coherence and compatibility of the training courses offered by the various Italian faculties, the profile of the professional figures trained at first and second degree levels and at higher levels of education and their relative degrees of competence, the receptivity of the labour market and the new needs that are emerging in education and society. In an European society grounded on the advanced knowledge and focused on the lifelong learning of adults education as a mean of economic and social growth, those professions which are aimed at the human capital development have an essential role among the Knowledge Workers. The Specific knowledge >>>

Principal Investigator

Silvia Nicodemo Università degli Studi di FIRENZE

Research Objectives

The aim of the research project is to study the specificities and the articulation of the educational professions’ chain, as defined through core competencies, with an intervention research methodology. The research is aimed at starting a strategic action organised on a scientific, professional and political level directed to the recognition of educational professions both in the national and European context. The analysis concerns the juridical framework and the political guiding acts related to the professions in exam. In particular, the research concerns the issue of professional registers and is aimed at promoting a systematic and unitary national regulation for educational professions placed in the context of the Information Society European guidelines. Negotiation talks between the parties concerned should be promoted, because different institutions are competent for educational professions. For this reason the research is focused on:
1. Professional chain,
2. Pedagogical Core Competences and articulations of the other competencies,
3. Occupational placement and issues related to the regulation of entries on the professional markets.

Objectives of the pedagogical:

- Definition of the terminological framework for educational professions;
- Definition of the specific competencies of different educational figures;
- Definition of profiles on the strength of the transversal and specific competencies;
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First Results

Expected results are related to objectives of the project. The expected results are codified in books published by project.
These books are published by national and international excellent firms.
The books are the expression of the survey, they persue the principal aim to clarify a unspecified global scenery. Moreover they persue the aim to confirm the importance and the priority for defining the professional profile of all the operators in the field of education.
These publications have to draw the attention of policy makers and laws makers about the system of educational professions.
Consequently this study contributes to disseminate and promote the knowledge around the educational professions. This study persues the aim to define:

About the educational system

- the key word and specific language,
- a professional specificity shared by social and cultural systems,
- the specificity of work,
- the ethic scenery and professional deontology,
- the system of educational professions,
the law system and related obligations;

About the pedagogic Core competence and the other competences

- The specific competences of all different operators in the field of education,
- The related specific competence to the profile;

About placement in the labor market

- The market, its specific peculiarity and the development of normative >>>

Timescale

24 months

National and international background

In the Italian language and culture the plurality of terms employed in order to define or to deny (laying at other professions the competences in concern) the educational/training professions represents a certain weak point for their recognition and affirmation, which can be overreached only by constructing a professional specificity scientifically founded as well as socially and politically shared. The unitary and qualifying expression adopted in the research, “educational/training professions”, around which individuate the scientific foundation and the specificities of these activities, arises from the belief that the “personal formative process” development is the common denominator and the aim of the professions in concern. The broad-spectrum of the educational professions action field represents a further reason for their differentiation, generating the need of a broad fan of competencies and requiring the placement of the an in the framework of the core competencies shared by the whole professional chain. Together with a formative problem there is a theoretical problem. As consequence of the progressive articulation of human and social sciences, the educational ones have become an encyclopaedia of disciplinary knowledge more and more broad. This situation generates a deep and microscopic disassembling of educational processes to the extent of the loss of their unitary nature. The research and the studies concerning the new professional figures in the educational and >>>